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2 - The Historical and Ideational Context of Postcolonial Liberation Wars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2022

Yaniv Voller
Yaniv Voller
Affiliation:
University of Kent, Canterbury
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This chapter presents the historical and ideational background to the eruption of postcolonial violence. It reviews the unfolding of the first-generation liberation wars, the response of the colonial authorities to the challenges and the birth of norms, ideas and practices of liberation, insurgency and counter-insurgency. It also provides a brief background to the wars in Iraqi Kurdistan and Southern Sudan.

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First-generation liberationcolonialismglobal anti-colonial movementThird WorldismArab liberation movements
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Second-Generation Liberation Wars
Rethinking Colonialism in Iraqi Kurdistan and Southern Sudan
 , pp. 55 - 89
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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